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3XN's record-setting Sydney Fish Market roof completes construction

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3XN is celebrating the completion of construction for the record-setting mass timber roof covering the soon-to-open Sydney Fish Market as it becomes the largest glulam roof structure in the southern hemisphere. It shelters the future 700,000-square-foot building and supports 407 individual cassettes shrouded with built-in PV panels.

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Studio Museum in Harlem will open new building in late 2025

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The new building is set to be inaugurated with the first major career retrospective of sculptor Tom Lloyd, whose solo exhibition was notably the first shown at the museum’s founding loft space on 125th Street when it opened in 1968.

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Project Mingde uses "cascading" roofs on Chinese nursery to recycle rainfall

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Non-profit Project Mingde has unveiled Duling Educational Centre, a staggered complex topped with roofs that help recycle rainfall into clean water for schoolchildren in rural southern China. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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Atelier Apeiron tops arched cultural centre with terraced roof garden

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The 142,560-square-metre building in China's southern city of Zhuhai contains a library, theatre and museum , all topped with a terraced roof garden. A sunken plaza was formed under the cantilevered roof. Architecture studio Atelier Apeiron has completed the Hengqin Culture and Art Complex in Zhuhai, China.

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ICON completes 3D-printed house with metal roof in Texas

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According to ICON , it took five months to complete the one-storey structure, which it claimed is 50 per cent less than standard building in the region. ICON has completed printing a model home in Texas It is the first of eight full-size properties to be printed in Wimberley Springs, alongside structures of more standard builds.

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BIG to wrap Kosovo opera and ballet theatre in sculptural photovoltaic roof

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Danish studio BIG has designed a curving folded roof informed by traditional Kosovan skirts for the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina. The roof will be clad in photovoltaic tiles and a stone-paved public square will surround the building. The images are by Bloomimages unless otherwise stated.

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Southern hemisphere's largest timber roof tops Sydney Fish Market

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The 200-metre-long roof canopy above the Sydney Fish Market, designed by architecture studios 3XN and BVN , has been completed. Located on Blackwattle Bay, the building will combine a fresh seafood market with shops, restaurants, community spaces and a seafood school under the largest timber roof in the southern hemisphere.

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